pities

Meaning

of Pity

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pathos condolence commiseration pitying

Examples

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. Virginia Woolf

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. Charles Caleb Colton

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around. H. Beam Piper

He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me. American Proverb

He that pities another remembers himself. English Proverb

He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me. Albanian Proverb